QGIS/ms-windows/mxe

MXE cross build

Scripts to cross build a windows QGIS binary from Linux using MXE: (M cross environment) http://mxe.cc/

The product is a zip file that contains a Windows build of QGIS, ready to be unzipped on a Windows machine, it does not require installation, just run the qgis binary.

Unfortunately it has some...

Limitations

• No Python support
• No OpenCL support
• No support for the new native Windows overrides (notifications etc.)

The easy way (requires docker)

From the main directory of QGIS repo issue the following command:

ms-windows/mxe/build.sh

The hard way

Follow the instructions on the website to prepare the mxe environment, you will need to build all required dependencies for QGIS (or see mxe.Dockerfile to get an idea).

The following command will select the posix threads enabled target and install the dependencies required by QGIS:

make MXE_TARGETS=i686-w64-mingw32.shared.posix -j 16 \
    qca \
    qtlocation  \
    qscintilla2  \
    qwt  \
    gdal  \
    qtkeychain  \
    qtserialport  \
    qtwebkit \
    qtwinextras \
    libzip \
    gsl \
    libspatialindex \
    exiv2 \
    protobuf

When done, you can check and edit the build-mxe.sh script and set the MXE path to your mxe installation directory, MXE can also be passed as an environment variable.